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Novels and novelists : a guide to the world of fiction

Title
Novels and novelists : a guide to the world of fiction / editor, Martin Seymour-Smith.
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1980.

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Additional Authors
Seymour-Smith, Martin.
Description
288 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Summary
An illustrated dictionary of novels and novelists that covers the novel's origin and development, how novelists' work, how to read novels, and a history of publication.
Subject
  • Fiction > Encyclopedias
  • Fiction > Dictionaries
  • Fiction
  • Biografie
  • Romancier
  • Fiction > Encyclopedias
Genre/Form
  • Encyclopedia
  • encyclopedias.
  • Dictionaries
  • Encyclopedias
  • Encyclopedias.
  • Encyclopédies.
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Contents
Origins and development of the novel -- Crime fiction: A history -- Science fiction: A history -- Approaches to the novel -- The novelist at work -- Novelist: An alphabetic guide -- Fiction and illustration -- The novel and the cinema -- The novel and the book trade.
ISBN
  • 0312579667
  • 9780312579661
LCCN
79005173
OCLC
  • ocm05846367
  • 5846367
  • SCSB-9580637
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library